There's a stadium (in Germany I believe) that has dual colour seating where the seats are just flipped and reversed between two colours dependant on who is playing there.
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And our home performances have left the crowds not wanting to return.
It's that vicious cycle again. I for one believe nothing much will come of this, other than us trying to offload players to close the budget gap. If they can't do that, they'll just have to plug the funding shortfall....they might do that by cutting the budget next season, but that would continue the cycle of worse football, fewer fans. One day, the penny might drop that we're going to have to invest to succeed and that the "break even" model is a recipe for perpetually diminishing returns.
The stench of decay has been overwhelming at our club over the past years. We've looked like a business that is inept and has no vision or has a strategic plan that looks credible to improve our circumstances. Unfortunately, I feel we need some external investment to improve our chances of resurrecting our club, which on current form will not happen. Therefore, the future is difficult as we bumble along, potentially further downwards.
750k shortfall by the end of January is massive. It's the equivalent of them expecting an extra 1900+ walk ups per game (at 26 quid) across the 15 home matches we'd have played by then and would mean they'd budgeted for around 9500 attendances. Unless there's another huge area of missing revenue I'm ignoring (and I'm clearly no financial expert) that would seem to be a huge delta at that point in a L2 season.
I'm not saying it's true, just passing on what I heard. Indeed you would think that 9500 gates all season would be optimistic, but then we're talking about a chairman who thought we'd get 7k at Northampton. We've made losses of far more than £750k before now so it doesn't necessarily sound implausible.
Well if Stevenson retains his place and starts putting in good performances we could get someone back in for him in January I suppose.
What colour seats you got?
Did you buy the online Ricoh Arena by playing online poker?
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Would anyone be surprised?
It may also open the gates for stadium sponsorship, I wonder if Boddy got any concessions on that?
You have to say, when they're off in court again it does make you think that a fresh 10 year deal sounds a bit unlikely. Still, we live in hope.
Unless they know in advance it's getting chucked out and so have the rent announcement ready?
In which case, why turn up at the court? Why not call the proceedings off altogether?
It's like my keep sending letters to Lauren Cohen asking her to go out with me and her keep refusing and telling me to go away, but my then not ever giving up.
The Munich stadium changes the colour of the outside at night depending on who is playing - two teams play there domestically
